1808-1889 Antonio Meucci 1.17 oz Sterling Silver .925 High Relief Rare Medal

Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and also a friend and associate of the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi.Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus which several sources credit as the first telephone.Meucci set up a form of voice-communication link in his Staten Island, New York, home that connected its second-floor bedroom to his laboratory.He submitted a patent caveat for his telephonic device to the U.S. Patent Office in 1871, but there was no mention of electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound in his caveat. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound by undulatory electric current.

The obverse of this medallion depicts Antonio Meucci with his name above his picture as well as his year of birth and death to the left and right of him respectively. The obverse reads, "U.S. Supreme Court ruled he invented telephone before Alexander Graham Bell"

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